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  • The Positive Second Amendment

    Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller

    by Joseph Blocher, Darrell A.H. Miller ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    The Second Amendment is among the most recognized provisions of the Constitution. It is also perhaps the most misunderstood. Common misconceptions about the amendment - what it forbids, what it permits, how it functions as law - distort the gun debate and America's constitutional culture. In The Positive Second Amendment, Blocher and Miller provide the first comprehensive post-Heller account of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • New Histories of Gun Rights and Regulation

    Essays on the Place of Guns in American Law and Society

    Edited by Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles, Darrell A. H. Miller ...
    The US Supreme Court recently held that the constitutionality of modern gun laws depends on whether they are "consistent with this Nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation." This landmark judicial decision, which cited an essay in this collection, made it ever more crucial to be clear about what the "historical tradition" entails. The scope of the Second Amendment's right to keep and ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

  • Free Speech Beyond Words

    The Surprising Reach of the First Amendment

    by Mark V. Tushnet, Alan K. Chen, Joseph Blocher ...
    A look at First Amendment coverage of music, non-representational art, and nonsenseThe Supreme Court has unanimously held that Jackson Pollock’s paintings, Arnold Schöenberg’s music, and Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky” are “unquestionably shielded” by the First Amendment. Nonrepresentational art, instrumental music, and nonsense: all receive constitutional coverage under an amendment protecting ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • We the People

    A History of the U.S. Constitution

    by Jill Lepore ...
    **WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY | ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025 | NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public LibraryWinner of the Massachusetts Book Award for NonfictionShortlisted for the 2026 Cundill History ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Slavery's Constitution

    From Revolution to Ratification

    by David Waldstreicher ...
    "A historian finds the seeds of an inevitable civil war embedded in the 'contradictions, ambiguities, and silences' about slavery in the Constitution." — Kirkus ReviewsTaking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the US Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Second Amendment

    A Biography

    by Michael Waldman ...
    The life story of the most controversial, volatile, and misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights and “a welcome re-injection of historical context into the present debate over the rightful role of guns in American culture” (Chicago Tribune).At a time of increasing gun violence in America, Waldman’s book provoked a wide range of discussion. This book looks at history to provide some surprising ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Constitutional Myths

    What We Get Wrong and How to Get It Right

    by Ray Raphael ...
    "A timely exposé about the ways in which Americans . . . have frequently been misled by myths about the origins and history of the U.S. Constitution." —Richard R. Beeman, author of Plain Honest MenAmericans on both sides of the aisle love to reference the Constitution as the ultimate source of truth. But which truth? What did the framers really have in mind? In a book that author R. B. Bernstein ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States

    Series series Modern Library Founding Documents
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham introduces America's essential founding documents in an elegant, readable, and timeless volume.In the winter of 1860–1861, facing the prospect of secession and civil war, President Abraham Lincoln held fast to the founding promise of the now-imperiled United States of America. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution had forged the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Our Ancient Faith

    Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    **An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize*Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize**Finalist for the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize*"It is altogether fitting and proper that, with this meditation on democracy and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • A Well-Regulated Militia : The Founding Fathers And The Origins Of Gun Control In America

    by Saul Cornell ...
    Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias. Now, in the first and only comprehensive history of this bitter controversy, Saul Cornell proves conclusively that both sides are wrong. Cornell, a leading ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Bill of Rights Primer

    A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights

    by Akhil Reed Amar, Les Adams ...
    Many Americans reference the Bill of Rights, a document that represents many of the freedoms that define the United States. Who doesn’t know about the First Amendment’s freedom of religion or Second Amendment’s right to bear arms? In this pocket-sized volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding.The Bill of Rights ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The American Reader

    A Brief Guide to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights

    by Worth Books ...
    The three most important documents in American history—expanded and explained.In the centuries since the creation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, as well as its Bill of the Rights, the liberties set forth within these documents have faced many challenges, including war, unrest, political debate, and legal disputes. Such trials persist today, but the ... Read more

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